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Sent from Knossos. Complaining that [Arthur] Evans seemed to be trying to extend John’s time at Knossos to the detriment of his work at Amarna, and kept finding additional things for the team to do; apologising that they would not return to the United Kingdom until the 20th of July; advising Herbert on cleaning marble busts; stating that the [Cambridge University] Press should have sent offprints [from the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, of his article ‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’]; and mentioning that he was looking forward to tennis and cricket and that it seemed that everyone [in athletics] was now jumping [6 feet and 2 inches] and “doing 15 in the hurdles”. |
